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...great photo and caption were a reminder of the sorry state of the NBA compared to its glory days of the eighties. The problems involve more than a mawkish yearning for the good ol’ days of Bird and Magic...
With the lights of the NBA All-Star festivities of this past weekend still radiating a faint glow, one great blinding truth became startlingly clear: Harvard desperately needs its own slam dunk contest...
...challenging task of guarding Forte will be handed to Norman—Harvard’s answer to the athleticism of Brown’s best player. Forte, whose older brother Joseph starred at North Carolina before playing briefly in the NBA, is coming off a career-high 36-point performance last weekend in the Bears’ loss to Cornell. The next night against Columbia, he hit the game-winning jumper with 3.5 seconds left, earning him Ivy League Player of the Week honors...
Adult sexual networks look very different and usually involve clusters of wanton individuals known to public-health experts as "core transmitters." (Think prostitutes, NBA stars.) Another surprise was the absence of tightly closed loops in which a foursome trades partners--what co-author Peter Bearman calls the Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice phenomenon, after the 1969 film. Teenagers seem to shy from such post-breakup swaps. Bearman, who heads the sociology department at Columbia University, suggests that dating the former boyfriend of your ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend may involve a loss of status or cross a line of loyalty...
...will probably take Kobe money, somewhere north of $130 million for a seven-year deal, to make him stay. The city is starving for a winner--Cleveland has gone 41 years without a major pro championship. Now that James is melting defenses with triple doubles, Cleveland, and the NBA, may soon taste glory once again. --With reporting by Laura A. Locke/Oakland and Portland and Chris Maag/Akron